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Yup - forget that completely. You handed the attendant cash and they made the change at the car. Fill the tank for $4.50 and get change back from a $5. Most often I bought an even $2 or $3 though, made for the quicker getaway. 🤣

this is definitely an issue with Comerica. Even though the upper deck is much further away than at Tiger stadium, I still prefer the upper deck boxes or at least as close to the front as is available rather than the lower bowl. No comparison to an upper deck box at the old ball park, but OTOH I don't get a pole if I don't buy early enough! Funny that in Tiger Stadium and Olympia, Detroit had two of the best upper decks ever in sports. At Olympia the front or the upper deck reached all the way the 1st or 2nd row of the lower deck.

There are roles that Stellan is so perfect for you can't even imagine anyone else doing them.

When you aren't fast enough or strong enough to get the puck back when the other team sustains pressure, what do you do? The weird thing about the NHL is that a team has a skill level, then that skill level is either diminished or amplified in each game by the energy level they bring. But over the long run that energy level also has a sustainable maximum that your team can only play above for so long. McLellan came in and their energy level went up, but as the season came to a close and other teams started raising their level, the Wings couldn't meet it. McLellan talked a lot about game management and playing to win as opposed to playing to score, but if all that's going to happen if you make the safe clear is the other team is going to be right back in your zone with sustained pressure because you can't forecheck and they beat you to all the loose pucks and you aren't fast enough to tie them up before they got off a pass or skilled enough to anticipate a passing lane or get a take away at the boards, you are still going to give up late game winners. You see it when the Wings go into 'fall back' mode and you know the game is an inevitable loss. You will never be a winning team if you have to go into turtle mode for long minutes at the end of every game. There is always a ton of discussion about how much all the things other than talent matter, because talking about talent all the time get boring, but in the end, in athletic competition talent is still what drives the outcome most of the time.

They don't want to hear it at ABC.

last season between May 8 and June 11 they were within one game of 500 either way 22 times before falling back until the August run. Also 2017 they hung around in May just under 500, got to 29-30 on June 8 then fell back.

Before you bought your home delivered newspaper by monthy subscription - you had to pay your paperboy in person every week - so one of those changers was a required working tool for every paperboy. The little hooks on the back are so you can hang it from your belt. IIRC, for a long time the News and Freep were a dime on weekdays and quarter on Sunday, so that was 85 cent for the week, so when you were on your 'collecting' day you had to be able to make change from a dollar at the door for ~60 customers.

as long as NCAA players are forced to age out of the league, the NFL won't have a problem. When one of them who is getting paid who isn't drafted goes to court to keep his 'job', that's when the problems could start. That has to be one of the reasons the colleges want Congress to codify outline of the House settlement into black letter law. One possible good outcome would be guys realizing that they can get paid another year for grad school working harder on actually getting a good degree.

Thompson was single from '85 to 2002. His second wife was 36 when they married and she was a GOP senate operative and they had been dating for several years at that point.

Slackers. They could have had that railroad done 30,000 years ago.

and for all that, we are still sitting dead on our Pythagorean for the season.

Until we learn otherwise, the Walman thing can't help but put me in mind of the Pistons firing Rick Carlisle. IOW, Yzerman or maybe even Ilitch got PO'd over something that either didn't or shouldn't have had any bearing on hockey. Of course the big difference being the Pistons lucked into a couple of years of Larry Brown instead of Gustafsson.

It will be funny if it ends up that some possibly large number of players who get paid amounts larger than the NFL minimum in college end up not being drafted. Not that there would be anything wrong with that at all, I just think it would be some kind of ironic. I suppose it's only a matter of degree different from a guy on a full ride who doesn't get drafted, but still...

Recent opponents have been the Cards, the Cubs, Cleveland, the Royals, the Giants, and the White Sox. All those teams other than the White Sox have better than average Team ERA's, with KC and the Giants being in the top 5. Two of the games against the Pale Hose were cool days. Not to worry.

As long as when both feet come back down they come back down in play, right? He's played 118 innings (~13 games) and has 4 Rdrs. Probably 5 after tonight.

still probably only a matter of when, not if. I don't know how the last couple of seasons went for them but I remember a couple of years ago the program at UCLA was reported to be in pretty dire financial shape. I assume the B10 revenue share must have helped.

Maybe he just overestimated how far away they were. I think that was pretty easy. Going into the COVID year I thought they were a lot closer than they were too. If he had understood how far they had to go, maybe he doesn't spend at all on those mid-level FAs and he gets to this year or even last year with a war chest big enough to bring in a couple of difference makers to go with the kids. Now they are stuck - the only hope being that next year's rookie crop is enough to turn the tide because they don't have the money to seriously compete for more than one top level FA.

I hope the ump said "It will improve with you gone" as he tossed him. The least a bad ump can do is have a good come back.

I have apparently gotten on to AOC's fundraising list. I think I will email back that I'm not sending any more $ to any Democrat until they have the sense to fire Hogg.

LOL - Maybe my reading comprehension is just gone, but this article appears to contradict itself from paragraph to paragraph, including statements from both PSU and UCLA that they are not involved in any equity arrangement with Elevate immediate following the paragraph that appears to report they are. I guess I just don't care enough about where colleges sports is on its way to to try and parse any sense out of it.

This is true. It just goes to show the drive to grub for the last $ since before the Tigers set those seats up they had the example of them being half empty during play in other stadia, so the despite their protestations about whatever isn't ready, they had to have anticipated what it was going to look like and they didn't care. So if Valenti et al want to hammer them, they can't say they shouldn't have expected it.

I don't think players aren't better today, but that is a slightly different question than whether the pool is bigger. A smaller pool could still produce the same or a even larger number of players because of training, tech, more effective scouting within the pool etc. At any rate, that said, what are the numbers? The population of Central America, the Carribean, Mexico and Venezuela together is a bit more than the US, so if you take a starting date - say 1960, with a US pop of 180M which has grown to now to 340M and assume the utilization rate of boys in the US is down even by 50% (which I would not doubt for a minute), but that the utilization rate of ~380M Latin players has at least doubled, you've added 190 million in Latin America, and gone from 180 to half of 340 million= 170 million, I'd say it;s probable that MLB is still easily ahead of the game - without even considering Asia.

I only half agree. I think it does look pretty terrible when you have a sold out venue and the best seats in the house are sitting empty because some corp or high roller did show or is isn't interested enough in the game to watch. That's what lux boxes are for, the camera doesn't have to look at them. To me it's just another drip, drip of the social rot we live with. The rich waste stuff other people would love to use but we can't have that. Sure, its been the human condition since the Pharoahs but my baseball team doesn't have to rub my nose in it for 9 innings every night.

Someone up thread (Buddha?) noted that the Wings are caught in the mediocre middle. I think that is exactly the case. If they have to get worse in order to build the payroll space to do something a year or two further fine, but if I'm the Wings I want to stop spending money on stop gap guys because all it does is cut off options to make the kind of moves they have to make to get over the hump.